Lea Porsager – born 1981 – doctoral student at the Malmö Art Academy and currently working in Copenhagen. Her work includes film, sculpture, photography and text. This spring her entry “Gravitational ripples” won the competition on designing a memorial in honour of the victims of the tsunami disaster in 2004. Two celestial bodies are located at the centre of the artwork, and from them, soft billowing waves covered in grass extend, forming a spiral in the ground. The work of art will reshape the entire south-facing slope on Blockhusudden, next to the Thiel Gallery in Stockholm, where the memorial site will be located. Porsager’s says the sources of inspiration are quantum theory, esotericism and feminist theory.
Jonas Dahlberg "Memory wound"
Jonas Dahlberg –born 1970, alumnus from the Malmö Art Academy and winner in the design competition for a memorial to commemorate the victims of the attack on the island of Utøya. A unanimous jury chose his proposal named “Memory Wound”, which involes a 40-metre vertical cut into the natural environment on the mainland. There will be two monuments: one by Sørbråten, which is the mainland closest to Utøya, and by the government offices in Oslo. Dahlberg is currently working in Stockholm in his own studio which consists of architects and cross-disciplinary researchers.
